Unsung death on the Nile – Part I
Once the mother of our world departed, her ghost arrived, plunging me into the memory hole which grief opens up, where the past becomes its own present and the present morphs into a kind of phantom future.
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Egypt’s borderline paranoia
My interrogation at the Egyptian border about my journalism and opinions is not about state security, but the insecurity of a paranoid state.
Read morePolitical baggage and state insecurity at Ben Gurion airport
Ethnic profiling at Israel’s airport is not about state security but the insecurity of the state, and is an infringement of fundamental rights.
Read moreEgypt’s rebels who lost their cause
Can the political alliance between Tamarod and the Egyptian military last, especially as the movement turns on the army’s benefactor, Washington?
Read moreEgypt’s false state of security
Handing Egypt’s security services a licence to repress the Muslim Brotherhood will return us to the police state the revolution worked to overthrow.
Read moreDemocracy is (still) the solution
In Egypt, neither Islamism nor jingoism is the solution. We need is a visionary founding document, and the stillborn 1954 constitution fits the bill.
Read moreThe liberation of exile
My father’s secret police file reveals that my newly wed parents were right to flee Egypt. But I’m grateful for the liberation of “exile”.
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